The Sun. — London, England, 1836-12-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. At the Wakefield Conservative. dinner Lord Wharn cliffe said he would much rather see the Catholic reli gion established in Ireland ,than consent to the voluntary system in that country. Between Lord Wharncliffe and Lord Roden there is a very wide interval, and yet the Conservatives are united. January and May are united in the fable. Lord Lyndhurst and Sir Robert Peel are closely united. The Times (which, by-the-bye, was proud of its public house circulation when it had one, but which now calls public-house readers snobs, as the fox ca lled the grapes sour) places the cordiality of this union beyond a doubt by its decisive communication yesterday, that " it was and is notorious in all other circles of society (i. e., than the snobs—What a change since the days of Queen Caroline I) that Lord Lyndhurst has been prevented from going down to D ra yt on to meet the Duke of Wellington and a large party of friends, no otherwise than by engage ments made at Paris previously to Sir Robert Peel's invitation." What can be a more conclusive proof of a cordial Union than this ? Had Lord Lynd hurst not been better employed in the Rue de la Paix he would have been under the same roof with Sir Ro bert, and this love feast would :have been proof, strong as holy writ, of the identity of th e i r po li t i ca l v i ews , and their love for each other. Sir Robert will, of course, take an opportunity at the Glasgow dinner to express his regret that the Glasgow boys had not given effect to their first intentions in favour of Lord Lynd hurst, and to inform them that they were really unneces sarily s crupulous with regard to his Lordship—that he i s a much more sanctified man than the Glasgow Prebyterians took him to be. But let that pass. Well, then, the Tories are united, but the Re formers are, it seems, not united; and the united Tories hope to prevail over the disunited Re formers. The hope is very flattering to the Reformers, fur it merely supposes them destitute of anything like common sense. This subject is viewed, in all its aspects, in a very able pamphlet, published within these few days, under the title of " The Conservative Peers and the Reform Ministry," which, judging from the abuse heaped on it by the Times, is felt by the Tories to contain what they deem rather unpalatable truths. " The complaints of the Tories," says this clever writer, " and o f the Radicals, take an exactly opposite direction. The Tories complain that they go neither fast nor far enough. The latter, in the course they are taking, inspire the former with the hope of returning to power. The chief, indeed the only, reliance of the ConservativeS, is upon the alienation of the Radical party from the Government. It is the hope of this desertion that gives them confidence ; and it is to this hope that we owe the extent and intensity of their efforts to recover the reins of Government." The Reformers have but to ask themselves this plain question—Do the Tories hate Ministers because they are not disposed to go far enough in the way of reforming abuses ? Certainly not. What, then, would he the effect of driving the present men from office ? To have the Ministry sucepedeil by the men who pre vented them from carrying more extensive Reforms, and who, hating " the very name of Reform," would give much less than their predecessors, and even that only if compelled. Mr. Daniel - Whittle Harvey, for instance, is a very clever man when he has a purpose to carry, and we have too high an opinion of his shrewdness to suppose for one moment that in seek ing to carry a private object he would go to work in the bungling way in which he would have the Refor mers further the public cause. , His capacity for Church Reform is so great that because he cannot have the whole Church of Ireland swept away at once as a great abuse, he would put the reins of p o w e r into th e hands of Lord Lyndhurst, who• would cling with pertinacity to every abuse. We should recommend this pam phlet to the Hon. Member for Southwark if we sup his understanding required any aid. The Times, no doubt, exaggerates the strength of the Conservative party when it tells us that it comprehends the great majority of the Nobility, the Magistracy, almost every Landowner possessed of 5001., a year and upwards, and all the Parsons. This would be libelling foully the higher orders of the country. But the statement would hardly have been made were not, from the dis tribution of landed property and other circumstances in this country, the Aristocracy and Clergy too gene rally, opposed to the cause of Reform. This at once accoulits for many of the difficulties which a Reform Ministry have to encounter. The Church Reform Bills of last year, for instance, were far below what the public is entitled to demand. But could Minis ters have possibly prevailed on cither•House to sanc tion efficient measures of Church Reform ! On this head let us hear what the writer of the pamphlet observes : " Ecclesiastical abuses have stood their ground longer than any other. Why is this ? Because they have been interwove n with the abuses of the State. The rulers in the Monarchy have been always more or less connected with families of great hereditary property and influence in the kingdom. The Church has ever been the great engine for keeping down the power of the people. Tree Clergy— whether in conduct or in doctrine, never lose sight of the enrichment and supremacy of their order. Clerical Magis trates throng the judicial bench in every county, and every city, and every borough town. The pulpits of every vil lage are employed to give the minds of the multitude that direction which best accords with the wishes and interest of those in power. Do the Radicals in Parliament imagine that the deranged movements of all this machinery can be regulated by a single eff i ort ? Do they really believe that its accumulated imperfections can be rectified in a single session, and this, too, amidst the bitter hostility of an ad verse faction ? If they separate' themselves from the party of the moderate and rational in the heat of such an intem perate expectation, they will well deserve to lose that res pect and consideration which they deservedly possess with the country, and which it is essential they should retain. Such a disunion, though it might not he fatal to the cause of Reform, would long delay its advancement, in spite of every effort in its favour on the part of the governing power. At this crisis, with all. the power and stratagem that is employed against them, the Reformers cannot afford to narrow the foundation on which they stand. As it is, their strength is barely 'equal to the struggle. If weakened by distrust and dissension their power is gone, and their usefulness is at an end." - The Church, as was observed by the Rev. Charles Boyton, is desirable to the Aristocracy because it is a main prop of their existence, as they monopolise the rich prizes, and leave the drudgery to poor devils from the inferior classes who possess no interest. The Church is truly, therefore, the stronghold of corruption. But what Ministry could hope to carry such a stronghold by storm ? The number of those who perdeive the real importance of Ecclesiastical Reform is now great, and constantly increasing ; but Church abuses are, after all, a ticklish ground for Reformers to fight their main battle on. In the time of the Commonwealth, though the struggle was as much religious as civil, the Puritans always dreaded the multitude. Richard Baxter, in his " Holy Commonwealth," ridicules the idea of placing any reliance on the mass of free holders who for a little ale would always vote as they were bid by the Squires ; and the great problem of the Ecclesiastical Reformers of that day was to de vise a scheme of government which should have the moral and religious welfare of the Peopl e at h eart, without being dependent on their suffrages. Since that time no doubt a great change . for the better ha s ta k en place, chiefly from the great increase of the town po- . pulation ; for, except in towns, the people are yet the slaves of ignorance and prejudices. As an instance it has been stated, and not contradicted, that in a certai n western county an individual celebrated as a wizard, materially aided the Tory Members at the last election by his threats against all who should vote for the Re formers. When it is considered that the Tories have in the parson in every parish a thick-and-thin parti san—that many of those who profess liberal opinions in other respects identify themselves in some way with Church abuses, and certainly would not support heartily any efficient reform, and that at present we cannot afford any material deduction from our num bers—the Reformers ought to make allowance for the difficulties in which Ministers are placed. One great argument of the Times may serve to point out to Re formers the importance of not being too inflexible. The Radicals, says the Times, are honest men, though their designs are not the less mischievous. They wish to "go the whole hog." The Whigs, how ever, do not wish such searching Reforms, and do not hesitate to pronounce them pernicious. What insin cerity then in the Whigs, contends the Times, to court the alliance of men between whose views and their own there exists so much difference. We are not now to combat this objection, which amounts to this—that no men can act together who do not think precisely alike on all political subjects, which is a gross absurdity. But we advert to it, to show that if the Reformers are dissatisfied with Ministers because they do not go far enough, many of the Whigs would be equally dissatisfied with them if they were to " go the whole hog ;" so that the attempt to carry all below with them would detach, as a matter of course, some of those above. The plain English of the matter, then, is this—Ministers can only maintain their ground by attempting those reforms which will obtain the sup port of all Reformers. And every professed Reformer is either very blind or very insincere, who hesitates be tween a Ministry willing to effect these reforms, and a Ministry averse to all reform, and which, if compelled to concede something to the demands of the people, will strive to make that something as little beneficial as possible. But we must reserve for to-morrow fur ther comment on this excellent pamphlet.—Morning Chronicle. That Siamese twinship " Whig-Radicalism" is from day to day subjected to-a progressive disseverance which can scarcely prove less fatal than the catas trophe yesterday copied into the Times from an Exeter paper—viz., that a man at Mount Radford, when driv ing home a cow in the late storm, was violently sepa rated from his animal while holding her by the tail, a tree -being cast across that O'Connellite appendage, and cutting it asunder as sharply as the pamphlet of Feargus O'Connor himself. Not only do the Whigs, the " pure old Whigs," or the " juvenile Whigs," the Russells or the Pahnerstons, fall away from the more furious Reformers, but these latter fall away froin each other. So that, in fact, the Whig-Radical mud-castle is so divided against itself, that not one lump of dirt can depend upon another. Take for in stance the " Liberty of the Press" meeting at White Conduit-house an evening or two ago. meeting There we find Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey and Mr. Thomas Wakley going to loggerheads—the first as a whole hog Radical, the second as an expectant Whig. Mr. Harvey is intelligible enough. He hates the Whigs ; and he says so. We have no knowledge of his mo tives, and can therefore express no sympathy with them. But the hatred of the said Whigs is a senti ment in which we, and the vast preponderating majo rity of our countrymen, most cordially concur. Mr. Wakley is more difficult to understand. That the Hon. Gentleman is no inconsiderable proficient in what is termed mob oratory only strengthens our con viction that the days of Whiggery are numbered. For if Mr. Wakley could not secure the. attention of a White Conduit-house auditory, when singing the glories of. that ,rump of Whiggism, the tail whereof he seems disposed to join in all servility, deep indeed must be the downfall of the craven desperadoes. It seems to be the fate of these doomed men to be dis graced, if to them disgrace be possible, by every tergi versating or trimming advocate who may fasten on their failing faction. Without resorting to Sir J. C. Hobhouse's graphic description of his actual colleagues when he himself was a member of " his Majesty's Opposition," we may content ourselves with this identical Mr. Wakley's testimony of two years' stand ing in favour of the desperate incapables for whom he now claims public confidence. At the close of the. first day's election for the borough of Finsbury in 1834, Mr. Thomas Wakley said, " Now that I sec I am beat, I shall recommend all my friends to vote for the Tory Pownall in preference to the atrocious Whig Mr. Duncombe." • Yet this very man, being now a representative of the persons so addressed in 1834, calls upon his constituents in 1886, at all hazards and at every sacrifice of feeling and of principle, to main tain the " atrocious Whigs " in their bad eminence, and to keep the preferable Tories out of power. Mr. Wakley is one of those political sportsmen who are al ways " in at the death " of their own party. We, therefore, hail his halloo as premonitory of the last gasp of Whiggery.— Times. At the Radical meeting held at White Conduit house on Monday evening, Mr. D. W. Harvey entered into a' tirade on politics in general, which being equally opposed to our own opinions as those of the Hon. Member for Finsbury, against whom it was indirectly directed, calls for a few observations at our hands. The Hon. Member for Southwark is equally at variance with the politics of the party under whose banners he is generally ranked, and with himself during the long; course of his long harangue. He begins by deprecat ing the use of politics at the dinner in question. To use his own words, he hoped to see that meeting " un contaminated with the ignoble objects of faction," and he regrets it as " the greatest obstacle to the happiness and rights of the people," &c. But at the conclusion of the speech, we see no more of the regret.. " They had talked of politics," he said, "and justly, for they were laying the foundation of a new state Of things, at which virtue would boast, and tyranny tremble." We shall only for the present remark, that the end of the speech of the Hon. Member for Southwark, like the commonwealth of Gonzalez, in Shale:Tease's Tempest, " forgets the beginning." But the Hon. Gentleman for ge 6 himself throughout. Ffe decries the" ignoble purposes of faction," while faction is the very lifeblood of hiS speech. It is impregnated from beginning to end with faction, or, if he prefers the phrase, with the " ignoble purposes of faction." .We shall, however, address ourselves to.the argument, such as it is, of the Ho nourable Gentleman, which may be couched pretty nearly in the following laconic phrase :—" Down with the flag from the Whig 'Reform Ministry—up with any flag of , which a larger division of the spoil of public honours and rewards may be expected by us of the ultra-Radical faction." The unforgiving inve teracy of ambitious disappointment, frowns and scolds by turns through ,the veil of universal philanthropy under' which the Honourable Member and Editor finds it convenient to shroud his wishes for a more enlarged popular support of • the True Sun. The Honourable Member is like another ambitious cha racter of ancient times. " He will be either Or sar or nobody." He will have the whole debt due to public freedom or none at all. He will have nothing to do with the instalments of 'Mr. Dani e l, O'Connell. He will have prompt payment or none. He hates the demand of instalments as much as Falstaff did the demand for security. Sooner than have halt' a loaf from Whig Reform, • as a means of getting the whole loaf, he will have none, not he—he would starve first. The whole amount of his nostrum for the people is abstinence and starvation. Any thing rather than assent to take a part of their claim as a. certain means of ultimately getting the whole. Strength begets strength, and the acquisition by the people of half their right gives them hope, and strength, and animation to enforce the entire concession of the rest. We should be sorry to charge the Hon. Member for Southwark with one-half of -the factious purposes to which he himself pleads guilty. He avows his wish of ousting the present Whig Reform Ministry coute qui coute. Let the Tories come in—let the obstruc tives revel in Downing-street—it matters nothing to him, so that he can subvert the present Ministry—so as he can make his alliance more necessary to them— so as he can make his talents more estimable by the powers that be—so as he can make their fearful anti - cipations, or actual necessities more advantageous or available to himself. Sooner than be as now, he is willing to exclaim with Richard— " Let darkness be the busier of the dead ; " or with Macbeth— ". Sooner than so—come fate into the list, .S - s.enjdf_icohvanci ppioraeedme to the utterance." The andcllon.r.ove, Gentleman reverses the axiom of Boling brokerotchats from for the wide embrace'partials to the whole of his philanthropy receives into its fraternizing arras the human race first, and finally condescends to suffus e the radiance of his benevolence over particulars. He will h av e n othi n g to do with the appr opriation clause —he will not take anything from the Church —he will have nothing to do with Muni cipal Reform Acts , and Tithe Ab o liti on A c t s — w hile 2,300,000 Irishmen are in such a state of destitution as to make his lawyer-like Susceptibility stand aghast, and his forensic bloodi run cold. These are minor ob jects compared' with th says Canning's philanthropist fraternit y as the hum a n ra c e. " I give thee sixpence ," l'll see thee iilanthropist to the knife-grinder, " hanged first." Let them perish piecemeal rather than sacrifice a prin ciple. Sooner than give them the equality o f r i ght and diffused knowledge, which will progressively obli terate their oppressions, let them be consigned to the tender mercies athe • Tories, who proDounce them aliens in blood"—whose misgovernment has caused their destitution—and who insult while they crush them. Mr. Harvey denounces in no measured terms the," peddling counting-house principle." To advo cacy of this principle, as one of the common-sense and business-like habits, we plead guilty. We have re. peatedly ourselves applied it to the instalment question, to the Peerage question, and to all the great questions which come before the discrimination of a great coun try. We differ entirely with Mr. Harvey on this point. Honesty is the best policy=and that which is honest and wise in the individual while managing his daily affairs, is honest and wise in a nation. The na tion wants a practical object. Whatever Mr. Harvey may say, it is neither prudent nor is it honest to be di verted from that object by vague and .useless declara tions " of the eternal truth principle." There is an obstruction. Surely common sense would remove the obstruction first, and then obtain the desiderata from which that obstruction hopelessly excludes us: We have advocated ballot, universal- suffrage, and short Parliaments as much as, Mr. Harvey. But what is the use of kindling the torch of discord among our own ranks by an untimely and useless ob trusion of them, when a removal of the obstruction will readily place them in our possession. Admiring Mr. Harvey's talents, we are compelled to believe that they have been blinded or perverted by some hypothetical conversion to the• dogmas of the Clootzites and He bertists. The latter pupils of Robespierre, as he will recollect, were never so loud in advocating " the eter nal truth" and the " eternal justice" principles—and never so concurrent with the florid style and tempting hues with which the Hon. Member for Southwark and his colleagues invested those principles, as when they deluged the ambulant guillotines of the French provinces with blood—and " coined money on' the Place de Revolution."—Morning Advertiser. If men are to be judged by the company they keep, as the old adage has it, we fear that the reputation of our << out and out" Liberal friends will not be much enhanced by the associations which their " eternally true principles" have recently found for them. The junction of Whigs and Radicals can be easily under stood ; it is like that of two men whose road is in the same direction, though the destination of one is not so remote as that of the other, agreeing to join company as far as their mutual convenience suggests. These may travel together without any compromise on either side. But when we see two parties avowedly journey ing to opposite points of the political compass make obeisance and compliments to each other, and pro pose to join hand in band, and advance in fellowship together, we have no hesitation in saying there must be treachery on one side or the other. When we per ceive the Tory press, in the excess of its condescension, volunteering its patronage to men whose principles are ostensibly the most adverse to its own, must we not inevitably come to the conclusion that either one party intends to make a dupe of the other, or that both have entered into a tacit and an acknowledged compact which each is ashamed to own ? In whichever point we view it, we believe we shall find facts to justify either clause of the conclusion. There are some of the leading Liberals who see 'not the consequences of their ill-timed enthusiasm, who are honest in their purpose, and there are others, happily but one or two, who speculate on the chances of party, and, like hardened gamesters, back the " ins and the outs," without caring whether the box be held by a friend or a foe. Who would ever have supposed that the most aban doned of the Tory journals, infamous from its prin ciples, and still More infamous from its apostacies, would adduce the lucubrations of an ultra, and, we believe, honest Reformer, to corroborate its political commentaries ? Who would have believed that Fear gus O'Connor would furnish leading articles to the Times 2 Yet such is the fact ; and we directly al lude to this gentleman's conduct, not from any hostile feeling, but as the most striking instance of the evil which may be done by' well-meaning men, allowing private feeling or patriotic enthusiasm to overcome their discretion. We impugn not his honesty, but his judg ment ; but there arc others—the one or two we have adverted to—who, in our opinion, have neither ho nesty nor judgment, whose integrity is a mockery and a mask, and whose judgment is run wild in self conceit. " The post of safety," as the Times observes, in its merciful proposition is to " hang O'Connell" in a certain contingency,—the post of safety for the Re formers is union. Union is the first, the second, and the third post of safety. Let nor Reformers be' wheedled or seduced from this great and invincible palladium. There is, in reality, no just ground of dis union amongst true Reformers. The measures which Ministers may propose in the ensuing Session must affect their own stability ,as a Ministry, more than the success of the great principles at issue. If these mea sures fall short of public expectation, the Ministers may be ejected from office by the withdrawal of the support which placed them in it ; but whatever the character of these measures, there is not the least chance of their passing into law in such a form as to satisfy the just demands of the people. These mea sures should be considered merely as chances given to the Lords to set themselves right with the public— and so firmly are we convinced of the impossibility of the hereditary principle adapting itself to the progress of representative government, that we arc not in the least alarm that any concession will be given by the Lords which will in public opinion supercede the ne cessity of their reform. On the contrary, if 'they re ject the Ministerial measures, which must be at least as liberal as . those of last Session, no party in the State—whether ministerial gr anti-ministerial—can dare to affect a desire for amelioration who will hesi tate to advocate the great desideratum—Peerage Re forin.—Morning Advertiser. The opening of the Session of the French Cham bers will be signalised by events very important to the whole of continental Europe, and especially so to Spain. The trial of strength between the present , Ministers of the King of the French and the late Ministerial party will, of course, be upon the question of active intervention in the affairs of Spain. How ever it may be disguised 'under the formal language borrowed from the quadruple treaty, or framed upon the opposing interpretations of that document, the real question will be, whether the cause of Spanish Bonds shall or shall not be supported by French bayonets ? This is the real battle to be fought in the Legislative Chambers of France. They who call themselves the supporters of the quadruple treaty care very little about _political principles ; but they care a great deal about their own pockets, and for that interest they will contend with all the enthusiasm of French viva city. It is certain that the Jews and , jobbers of France had an understanding with the Thiers Ad ministration, not the less intelligible becaUse it w as indirect. They had a very good guarantee for the policy of that Administration. They knew that Thiers was resolved upon the measure of active mili tary interference in the event of the success of Don Carlos making that measure necessary. Not doubting that the policy of M. Thiers would be the policy of the Tuileries, they speculated upon that basis in the Spanish Funds. To their dismay, and more than their dismay, they found that Thiers could not carry into effect the policy upon which they had been led to cal culate. '['hey are covered with disappointment, and filled with patriotic devotion to the quadruple treaty, or rather to their own interpretation of it. There is no doubt that the Stock jobbing interest of France is a Very powerful one, and that M. Thiers has reasons of the very strongest kind to animate him to great exertion in making that interest prevail for intervention. There is not much indeed, to be said for the nobleness or disinterestedness of his motives—but that matters little. The political morality of France is not easily shocked, and an army of 20,000 men in the North of Spain, although very well known to be despatched from the Bourse rather than the Tuileries, would be described in all. the Thiers and Palmerston newspapers as an exhibition of moral force in favour of liberal principles. But, however strong the Stock-jobbing party may be in France, it has, at least for the present, to contend with the energy and inclination of Louis Phillipe. It is very clear that he has made up his mind as to the im policy of giving lencovragement to that party in Spain which alone can be made, by any assistance that even he could give, superior to the party of Don Carl o s. He see, then, in the Spanish Peninsula Don Carlos or democracy must reign. To the latter it is not likely that the Monarch of a neighbouring stue, who wishes to establish his throne and dynasty, would, except under very peculiar circumstances, give countenance ; and there is some reason to believe that family consi derations may have no inconsiderable effect in inclin ing him to the former. It is very probable, that in the event of electing a new Chamber, the party of M. Thiers would lose many friends, for popularity at the Bourse is not the same thing as popularity in France. Should the vote of the Chamber, therefore, be in fa vour of intervention, and should Louis Philippe see no reason, in the conduct of the Northern Sovereigns, for changing his policy as respects Don Carlos, that vote may have no other effect than that of causing a new election. As to the Bourse Opposition party, headed by M. Thiers, it cares for nothing beyond the first step, which would have the effect of raising the bonds, and enabling the prudent to get rid of them without loss. Upon that party the reasoning of M. Guizot, showing the improbabity of ultimate success from intervention, has no effect whatever. They do not care about ultimate success, and no doubt they would be willing to compound with Louis Philippe, for hailing Don Carlos at Madrid this day twelve , ; month, if he would give them but six weeks of inter vention, to fetch up the bonds ! This intrigue may be attempted, but we do not think it will succeed.— Morning Herald. „ Nothing can be plainer than that the Ministe rialists feel themselves to be in a false position. The roaring of Radicalism in one quarter, and the tedious argumentation -in another to prove that Whiggery and Radicalism are not so very incompatible with each other, if people would be but reasonable, and have patience—both' these indications point to the same conclusion ; the INlinisterials feel that,. as matters stand, they cannot go on. They cannot but feel also that all the difficulties which now incompass them are of their own creating. They are paying the price of the . corrupt bargain by which they- were enabled to oust the Administration of Sir Robert Peel. Suc cess was sweet for the moment—the top of the cup was delicious, but now they have come to the Radical substance at the bottom, and what signify wry faces ? ..They must bolt it or die. They have shuffled, and made excuses, as long as they could, but the time is now come, or at least very near at hand, when they must become Radical drudges or nothing. This is no very comfortable position under any circumstances, but, when accompanied by the reflection that their own paltry vindictiveness and party spite have brought them into it, it must be very painful. Lordi Melbourne and J. Russell, we greet you well. What do you think of your selves now 2 How do you mean to meet the democratic pressure in the coming session ? Do you expect to be able to keep up the game of fiddle-faddle with the English and Scotch Radicals for another seven months ? Your egregious vanity may whisper hopes of the pos sibility of this, but your fears must predominate that such luck cannot be yours. Every day must serve more and more to dissipate the dream, if you ever in dulged in it, that you may get on for another Session as leaders of the " something-between" party. That fraudulent nonsense is at an end, and real principles of Government must be decided upon. The men, or the Ministers, who say that they have no principles .be yond what thy preponderating influences of the existing House of Commons may seem to suggest must take their proper place. That place is not the place of leaders. You arc quite mistaken, most pliant and accommodating Ministers 7 -you are quite mistaken, (notwithstanding the flattering unction which the Globe and Examiner would lay upon the scars which fear has made in your love of place,) if you imagine that you have only to concede—that you have nothing to dO but tell the Radicals you are theirs, in order to be upheld by them as Ministers. The British Radicals are weary of this. They know you ; and that knowledge is not to be melted away by conces sion, or juggled out of them by intrigue. They know you, and the consequence of that knowledge is, that they despise you. They know that, in heart, you can not be with them ; they know that every step which you go along with them is a step which you would ra ther not take ; they know further, that, if they suc ceed, you and all that you have amassed from the working of a system to which, in your spite, you would turn traitors, must go down. They cannot, therefore, calculate upon a sincere co-operation with them, and even they have the decency not to wish to wring from the desperation of weak men what they think they can obtain in fair contention with the strong. No doubt there are. some—perhaps a good many—of those who call themselves Radicals in the present House of Com mons who would make any bargain, and feel not the least scruple, to obtain their dirty selfish ends by dirty selfish means. They would club with von on condition of sharing the spoil ; they would vote that black was white, or white black, and perhaps boast of their own gross dis honesty, if by that means they might be permitted to share even with you the advantages which low, gro velling, and sordid creatures can delight in, no matter with what disgrace they are accompanied. But these paltry whifflers will soon be brushed out of the 'way, and democracy will have leaders of its own, leaders of whose talents it will be assured, and of whose mode of proceeding it may make meotion without a feeling of degradation. Of any other support than that of Ra dicals the present - Ministerialists seem not to dream. There they are right. They have lost the time when they might hive saved themselves. It is for the ,coun try to judge how far it is safe to go on with Mi nisters who have completely disgusted all men of Constitutional principles, however liberal, with whom they were once connected, and have flung them selves into the hands of those whom they fear and hate. It is vain that they may try to sift out of this party, and to create a kind of little town-aristo cracy Radicalism, which shall uphold them while the more honest working people arc against them. There is nothing in this little town-trading aristocracy to sup port a-Government, while the landed interest and the professional, the'nobility and gentry, are opposed to it in one direction, and the populace in another. Such a power, whether called Juste Milieu, or designated by any other nickname, must speedily fail. As to the sentiments of the nobility and gentry respecting the present Administration, we suppose that our readers need no evidence to prove their hostility. As to those of the working classes—we mean those of them who have been led into the ranks of democracy—we may quote as literally good authority Mr. Feargus O'Con nor, whose travels among the " operatives" have been of late as notorious as those of any other man. Ad dressing the Ministers he says : " It would appear as if you held power with no other view than to induce a comparison between the promises of men out of office and the acts of the same men in office. Your great triumph was gained by the people, and their in terests have been wholly lost sight of ; for 1 defy any man to point out one single Whig enactment tending to increase the comforts or to lessen the burthens of the working classes. You talk of organic changes in the Lords, and then you deprecate any interference with that body. You complain .of 'difficulties, and appeal for pity and protection to the people ; you provoke a struggle, and then dread the consequences ; your speeches as individuals at public din ners• are not marked by the same concord which cabinet expediency insures for your acts as a body. You have thrown yourselves into the arms of a man who called you base, brutal, and bloody,' and who now merely watches the moment of your weakness to triumph in your ruin. You cherish your corporate power at tlw expense of your individual feelings, your pride, and your honour. Though you love the power you hate the supporter, and while' you vain-boastingly parade the strength of your party your proud hearts cower at the means by which the strength is acquired." This is a strong sketch, which we shall leave our readers to contemplate, merely reminding them that it is drawn by a Radical, and that the only hope of the Ministers is in Radical support '. —Morning Post. No less than 2,0001. worth of timber is said to have been blown down on the Blenheim estate during the late hurricane. _ The hurricane on Tuesday morning appears to have commenced in the lower parts of Cornwall at half-past seven o'clock, Plymouth at half-past eight, at Exeter at half-past nine, and %As spreading devastation in London at one. The damage in Exete r is es ti m ated by well-informed and extensive builders to be at 25,000/. Darrac, Napoleon's well-known upholsterer, came to Paris about fifty years ago to get his fortune. He was then ten years old, and when he reached the Port St. Martin he had not 10 sous in his pocket. In 1827, how ever, the poor child had grown a man, and was worth from 60,000 f. to 80,000 f. a-year. He has, however, lost all his fortune since, and is now in prison, and has been declared insolvent. EXPOSITION OF HOMEOPATHY. • (BY DR. BUREAUD RIOFREY.) At a recent meeting of the Westminster Medical Society, after the routine business of the society was transacted, a very temperate and extremely well-written expositiOn of Homoeopathy was read by Dr. Bureaud, and commented on by Dr. A. T. Thomson, Mr. Costello and Dr. Addison. Our limits will not allow of the Whole paper being given,' but the following extracts will show that Dr. Bureaud has treated the subject with much discrim nation and judgment : " Gentlemen—When a doctrine has a certain number of partisans in different parts of the wor ld, we mus t sup p ose for the honour of mankind, that there is some truth in it, and that those who seek to propagate it, have at least been seduced by an appearance of truth ; were we to reject this doctrine without examination, we might justly be accused of prejudice and injustice. Whenever hymceopathy is con demned hastily, the homoeopathists take advantage of it, and remind us of the fate of Galileo, Harvey, and the opposi tions of the ignorant to vaccination ; they also bring forward Corpernicus, Descartes, Newton, undervalued by their con temporaries, and placing themselves on the same line with these immortal men. The homoeopathists complain of the ignorance of the times, or of the egotism of their opponents, and thus, easily obtain all the honours of persecution. If the discovery of the motion of the earth and the fixity of the sun was not condemned, although it was not consistent with the general notions of astronomy, they ask, why re ject homoeopathy, which is as important in medicine as Newton and Galileo's discovery ?_ sketch of Hahneman's life, I need only make his opinions known, and to these I shall add a few observations ; we shall afterwards draw our consequen ces. Before Hahneman laid down his system, he denied all that had existed from the time of Hippocrates to the present day, and professed to give birth to the real science of medicine. " Diseases are generally divided into lesions of the organs and disorder in the functions. Homoeopathy acknowledges no organic alterations. Hahneman says, that in order to gratify our folly, diseases cannot cease to be dynamic aber rations that our spiritual life feels ; that is to say immaterial changes in ourselves. (Organon, p. 15.) " Hahneman says, that symptoms are the only things that should attract the physician's attention in all maladies.' (Organon, page 17.) * # " But now let us inquire how homoeopathists act when the symptoms of an existing evil are not evident. When an individual is bitten by a mad dog, will they preveht the wound beingcauterized, when there are no other means of stopping the progress of the virus? Is there no disease be cause there is no symptom ? and will they wait till the pa tient is attacked with the dreadful convulsions attendant on this fearful disease, to administer a quadrillioneth part of a grain of belladona, of hyoscyamus, or stramonium ? Can it then be said that the tolle causam of ancient medicine is a chimera? that the disease in this case, as in a thousand others, is but a dynamic aberration of our spiritual life ? Will homoeopathists then assert that they have not seen the cause, as they say they have not seen Vanhelmont's thorn ? Will they then inquire What quantity of rabid virus has been absorbed, in the same manner as they ask what quantity of syphilitic virus has penetrated ? " Hahneman again says, that all the experiments in the world could not prove, that when once the symptoms of a disease are cured there remains but health, and that the morbid changes operating in the interior of the body, have not been annihilated. (Organ. p. 118.) " If the followers of Hahneman adopted the modern symtomatology, this last assertion of theirs would have re mained unnoticed ; but when their symptomatology, founded on the functions, abstracts the organs, can we avoid re proaching the homoeopathists with depriving themselves of the admirable means and discoveries of the moderns. # " The homoeopathists began by rejecting the study of causes ; they assert that man knows not the primitive cause of anything, he only sees effects and symptoms ; and as these are the image of the disease, or of the morbid, im perceptible, and spiritual essence, all other inquiries are use less. But yet, in dividing maladies into acute and chronic, Hahneman forgets what he has already said'on causes. " Hahneman divides acute diseases in two categories, most of them depend' on a passing affection, a psore latente, which falls into a state of stupor when the chronic disease is not too violent ; others depend on meteoric and telluric influence, which cause epidemy.'—(Organon, p. 179.) " Hahneman, from the beginning of book, rejects the study of causes as useless and powerless in bringing on a result ; he then acknowledges that the acute diseases are often produced by a latent psora ;—but let us here his ob servations on chronic diseases. " The iniasms causing chronic diseases,' says Hahneman, are syphilis, sycose, and the itch. The itch,' he tells us, is the only real, fundamental, and productive cause of all the morbid forms known by the names of weakness, ner vousness, hysteria, hypocondria, mania, melancholy, epi lepsy, spasms of all kinds, rickets, caries, cancer, fungus lisematodes, gout, hemorrhoids, jaundice, cyanosis, dropsy, amcnorrhea, gastrorrhagv, asthenia, sterility, cataract, gravel, paralysis, and pains of all kinds, &e. &c:—(Org. p. 183.) " Such is the immense catalogue of diseases of which the cause is revealed by this great reformer, who, in the first instance, only believed in symptoms ; and we must ob serve, that he ends the list by saying pains of all kinds, &c., &c. This reminds us forcibly of a noted quack, who boasted of being known in the whole universe and a thousand other places. " We must bear in mind, gentlemen, that when we are called to attend ladies who have slight nervous attacks, they are caused by the itch ; for Hahneman asserts that there would be no spleen, no hysteria, without the exis tence of the itch, which the fair sex so dexterously con ceal by the aid of cosmetics. " But, putting aside what may appear ridiculous in Hahneman's opinion on the causes of the various diseases here mentioned, I must inform you that Hahneman says he spent twelve years in searching for the source of those numerous chronic affections that had remained.unknown to his predecessors and his contemporaries. * * " According to Hahneman, all the cures that have taken place from, the time of Hippocrates to the present day, have only been effected because ignorant physicians have by chance administered homoeopathic medicines. " The application of this homoeopathic principle may perhaps cause some degree of fear, gentlemen ; for when the cup is full to the brim, one single drop will make it overflow. When the blood vessels are full, turgid, and enlarged, the slightest increase may make them burst, and cause apoplexy : an aneurism may also break. A tuber culous matter in progress to softening by a new artificial increase, may sooner soften ; a mucous membrane highly inflamed, may become ulcerated ; yet there is nothing to fear. These diseases depend on miasm, on the itch, and the increase of blood may take place without causing in stantaneous death, as says an homoeopathist. And, in deed, if the patient die only a few days after, is then ho moeopathy very guilty when it does not cause instanta neous death ? * * "I am ready to prove all 1 have here advanced. I have studied homoeopathy, and can discuss it conscientiously. Stupidity, ignorance, and fashion had opened a brilliant career for those who choose to follow it ; but I could never make up my mind to trifle with my patients' health. " If it be asked, what inducement there is to follow this doctrine, I shall answer, that, for upright practitioners, it is the similia sinzilibzis of Hippocrates, in which there is some truth ; but if I grant this, I do not grant that Hip pocrates prescribed by a thousandth part of a grain ; and when his successors treated the spasmodic vomiting by an emetic, it was certainly not an homeopathic dose. If, according to Hahneman, all the cures have been only effected by the law similia similibus, can it be said that in finitesimal and imperceptible doses were given ? What causes this system to be adopted, is a superficial observa tion—idleness, or interest, and perhaps the itch, which weakens the mental faculties. The continual answer of the homoeopathist is as follows : do not. reason, but nzake experiments. Well, be it so ; and that my own experi ments, which led me to give up the system, to psoric minds may not be rejected, I proceed to state the result of the trials made by two eminent men of undoubted probity and talent."—[Here Dr. Bureaud related the opinions given by Dr. Pointe, Physician to the Hotel Dieu, and Dr. Andral, Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Paris, both of whom agreed with him in thinking that homeopathy was a system completely illusive.] On Tuesday morning a man named Martin Kuff, a packing-case dealer, living in Green Dragon-yard, Fore street, met with a dreadful accident in Leather-lane, Hol born. The man was driving a cart which was over-laden with heavy packing-cases, when the cart upset, and the cases fell on him, fractured his head, broke his thigh-bone, and otherwise seriously injured him. He was immediately re moved to the Free Hospital, Greville-street, Hatton-garden, where every attention was instantly afforded that his situa tion required by the surgeon in attendance. He lies there at present in a very dangerous state ; and what makes the case still more melancholy is the fact that the poor sufferer has a blind wife and four young children. As one among the countless instances of the vio lence of tho late hurricane, it is stated that the town of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, though nine miles from the coast, was covered with salt water, and that in such quan tities was it brought by the wind that the windows became so thickly encrusted with crystalized salt, that objects could scarcely be seen through them. On Sunday evening as the sun was setting, a dark vapour or cloud shot up over its disc, exhibiting columns and festoons, similar to those of the Northern lights, the horizon otherwise perfectly clear except a haze in the south. At 10 o'clock the same appeared above the moon while rising ; it floated off to the south east, and disappeared before 11. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 7. The Alliance, Proome, from Seville; Antelope, Dart, St. Übe's; Emerald, Giffard, Seville ; Amy, Christie, Lisbon ; Unity, Stevens, Villa Nova; Adrena, Jones, Berbice; Eliza, Barnes, Jersey; Unicorn, Mullens, St. Petersburgh ; Sisters, Ramsey, Demerara ; James, Clark, Riga ; William, Chris ton, St. Petersburgh ; Wilhelmina, Stehr, Altona; Kent, Tune, Boulogne; Gevige, Brown, Demerara. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. The Navarino, Dale, for Guernsey; John Bull, GCorbin, Hamburgh ; Madona, Reggeiro, Naples ; Prince eorge' Chilcott, Mauritius; Betsey Black, Anderson, Malta. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Florence, Cundy, for Para; Joseph Fenton,, Hender son, Leghorn. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Concordia, Armsted, for the Baltic; Johanna Wilhel mina, Leitz, Elsineur; Hygea, Thomsen, Norway. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Mary Ann, of St. John's, from Cork, 27th ult., with , loss of maintopmast and mainmast-head, by the Elizabeth and Ann, arrived at Cork; James Turcan, Calcott to Liverpool, Oct. 5, off Rodqucs ; Minerva, Liverpool to Demerara, in lat. 40., long. 15. ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, DEC. 6. The England, Waite, from New York ; Courier, Price, New Brunswick ; Nelson Wood, Stockdale, Picton ; APII" chester, Roddock, Pernambuco; Ann and Jane, Bcrbice Pekin, M'Donald, Quebec; Chester, Tait, Quebec. ENTERED FOR LOADING. The Rising Sun, Steel, for Dunkirk ; Mazeppa, Brockle bank, Gibraltar; Mclanto, Toole, Leghorn; Ruby, Farraut, Lisbon; Ocean Queen, Carnie,Rio Janeiro: CLEARED OUTWARDS. The Irlum, Dixon ' for Barbadoes ; Febo, Palermo; Man chester, Drenning, City Point ; Jarrow, Hoare, Demerara ; Lady Normanby, Odessa; Amelia, St. Thomas's; Rival, Winnfield, Rio Janeiro. SAILED. The Emma, Cole, for Genoa; Warrior, Lister, LEbon. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrived the Mary Bibby, Cumming, from Bombay, at Li verpool, sailed 25th August, St. Helena 25th October. Arrivals at St. Helena.—The Pantoer, Lodwood, Oct. 25► from Manilla, and sailed Oct. 25 for Amerka ; the Ferrate, Sloan, Oct. 24, from Mocha, for Baltimore ; the Jacobus, Lau rens, Oct. 24, from Batavia, and sailed Oct. 25, for Rotter dam; the Sumatra, Silver, Oct. 24, from China, and sailed Oct. 25 for Salem ; the Ann, Griffiths, Oct. 25, from Bom bay and Mauritius to London. The Sumatra reports the Eng lish ship Martha, Viner, and Earl of Balcarras Hine, had ar rived at China, the former from Liverpool. The Hindcio, of Belfast, Captain Driscoll, from Liverpool to Bombay, was to tally lost about thirty miles to the southward of Bombay. , The chief mate and one man drowned; cargo partly saved. Re ported per Mary Bibby. Arrivals at Bombay.—Tbe Waverley, Aug. 17, from Mo chi; Eliza, Aug. 17, from Zanzmar ; I. W. Dare, Aug. 1 8 0 from Busbire. Departures from Bombay.—Tho Princess Victoria, Aug. 12, and Ann, M'Alpine, Aug. 15, for Calcutta ; Inglis, Aug. 15, for China; Rookman, Finlay, Aug. 25, for Calcutta; Adelaide, Aug. 25, for London ; the Europa to sail Aug. 28, for . Liverpool; Hashemy, Aug. 25, for China ; Hugh Lindsey, Sept. 16, for Bussora. Arrivals at Calcutta.—The Bisson, July 23, for' Nantes and Bourbon ; Indian Oak, July 25, from the Mauritius ; Sophia , July 23, from China and Penang ; Crocon, July 23, from Li verpool ; United States, July 23, from Boston • Magnet, July 27, from Liverpool, Rio, and Covelong ; dalla Merchant , July 27, from Cochin ; Trident, July 28, from the Mauritius; Ripley, July 28, from Liverpool ; ; Harrison, July 29, from Bourbon ; Emma, July 29, from the Mauritius ; His ~ Ma jesty's ship Wolfe, July 29, from Madras ; Mary and Susan , from Boston ; Asia, Pearson, from London and Madras. Departures from Calcutta.—The Minerva, July 21, for London; Orestes, July 22, for China; James, Tuscan, and . Dart, Wheeler, July 27, for Liverpool. NEW WORK, BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE MUNSTER FESTIVALS,' P " THE COLLEGIANS," &C.----We. are repuested, to state that the new work by the author lit " The Munster Festivals," &c., intitled " The Duke of Monmouth," is published this day by Mr. Bentley, New Burlington-street, who has also just published " Lionel Wakefield, or the Life of an Adventurer," by, the author of " Sydenham." Agents for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming' , Dublin ; for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edin burgh ; and may be obtained of all booksellers. The following letter has been sent by M. Stapylton, Esq., to Mr. Haxby, solicitor, Easingwold --" Myton Hall, Borobridge, Nov. 29, 1836.—1 have only this day received your letter soliciting my vote for you to be the clerk to the Easingwold Poor Law Union. I beg you will excuse my inquiring whether you are or are not a member of the poli tical:party denominated the Tories ; as I consider that party, from the conduct of thirty-six of their leaders lately at Northallerton, to be rancorously hostile to all the just, the moral, and the constitutional principles which have enabled the King's Ministers to restore prosperity to the agricultu ral as well as to the commercial interests of Gr eat Britain. It is not my intention, in any district where I have a vote, to be the means of bringing into official stations under that Act any person who, in addition to his other qualifica tions, does not also avow his approval of his Majesty's pre sent Government." ..... THE WALPOLE LETTERS.—The public w ill learn with much pleasure that the Very valuable series of Walpole's letters to George Montagu and others, forming necessary companion to those addressed to Horace Mann , are Just ready for publication in a concise and cheap form- The distinguished character of Walpole as a letter writer i 5 too well known to need comment, and, indeed, all the excel lencies that letters can pretend to, his birth, rank, situation , and peculiar talent, well enabled him to impress on them. The son of old Sir Robert had also this advantage, that he came prepared, not with the bare historical knowledge of the preceding age, which must usually satisfy others, but with a minute and private history, both of men and things , that made it almost equally familiar to him with his own times. This was the knowledge Walpole himself delighted in, and this is the great and unrivalled excellence of tits series of correspondence, which we hope will find a place in every good library. SERIOUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A very seriou s accident happened upon the Newcastle and Carlisle Raik way on Saturday. Some coal waggons having been run en to the cells at Corby, the men had neglected to adjust the switches, and the Sampson engine, with the thorough train goin g to Carlisle, was in consequence carried off the railwaY , and fell over the cells, dragging with it the tender and two waggons laden with grain. The men on the engine reversed the engine, and did all in their power to arrest it, and pro' videntially jumped off and saved themselves. A man at the cells at the time was severely hurt, and is since dead. On re moving the grain waggons the bodies of two boys were found both dead. It appears the boys had secreted themselv es under the cover of one of the grain waggons to avoid paying their fare, unknown to the guard, and in'the fall had been killed. None of the passengers in the carriage, of when' there was a considerable number, ieceiVed any injury"' Tyne Mercury. On Thursday, in Sugar-house-lane, Aberdeen, th e mother of twin infants left them locked in a room till she would go for medicine to one of them which had been fo r some time unwell. On returning and opening the doo r, she found the ailing child lying before the fire, burnt black: and almost lif e l ess ! Th e p oor i n f a nt was instantly carri ca to the Infirmary, but life was extinct before it reached the Hospital.—Edinburgh Courant. 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Butterfield, of a son. On the 3d inst., at Loppiugton House, Sal o p , the lad y of Iles. Dickin, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 3d inst., at Stoke, near Guilford, the lady of Captain We therell, Royal Sussex Militia, of a •MA R1111;D. On the 6th inst., at St. Mark's K ennin g ton, Crawfurd Cross man, Esq., of the Bengal Army , t o Elizabeth Henriette Cragg 9 ' only grandchild of the late Colonel BengalAstillerP DIED. via O rk it:t z ! g ie e, 2 l, 2 6 d 9 t . ilt., Thomas Meller, Esq., late of Lant street, On the sth inst., Henri Platt, Esq., at Colney Hatch, Middlesex. On the 4th just., tta, second daughter of H. P. Sperling, Esq., of Norbury Park, Surrey. On the 3d inst., at Brudenell-place, New North -road, Mr. Jebn Middlemiss, aged 79. South - On the 3d inst., Rebecca, wife of C. Mackenzie, Esq. On the 326th tall in Commercial- road, Lambeth, Mr. Juireg Forrest, late merchant in Edinburgh. On the sth inst., in Cavendish-place, Bath, Frederica, relict of R. Glyn, Esq., second son of R. C. Glyn, Bart., of Gall , Dorsetshire, and daughter of the late H. Harford, Esq., of noon Place, Berks. On the 4th inst., at Micklehani Rectory, Surrey, aged 29, Eliza beth Jane, wife of the Rev. Alfred Burmester. At Lee, Kent, Mrs. Rush, aged 77 London: P r i n t e d an d Published by MIJKDO YOUN G, °f 1440. 112, Strand, a t The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in this county of Middlesez,—.Thursday, D ece mber 8, 1886. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, 'DECEMBER 8, 1836. i